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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1398195)	4/6/2023 7:05:25 PM
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"Presumably we would have gotten all of those Americans out before April 1st (or May 1st, or whenever)." I don't believe that you really believe that, but, if you do, you're living in Fantasyland. == "Or if the postponement was because of that, then we should have stuck to the new date even after the goat fukkers rose up and overran Afghani positions." Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan \| The White House -- " thereby showing that the Taliban was in charge" They were in charge. Timeline of Taliban offensive in Afghanistan lordslibrary.parliament.uk The cities of Herat and Kandahar had fallen to Taliban control by 13 August. The US military estimated that Kabul could soon succumb to insurgent pressure. On the same day, the UK Government announced that around 600 members of the UK armed forces were being deployed to support the evacuation of British nationals from Afghanistan, as well as former British staff eligible for relocation under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy. The last major northern city, Mazar-i-Sharif, fell to the Taliban on 14 August. This left only Kabul and Jalalabad remaining under Afghan government control. President Biden confirmed that he would not reverse the US decision to leave Afghanistan but said the US would deploy 5,000 soldiers to accelerate the removal of US diplomats and Afghan allies from the country. The Taliban claimed victory of Kabul following the collapse of the Afghan government and reported fleeing of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani from the country on 15 August. The city of Jalalabad also fell to insurgents. In a statement published to Facebook, President Ghani said he had departed to “avoid bloodshed”.